Mark Rein is never one to keep his mouth shut. Sometimes he has no filter between his brain and his mouth, which is great for his line of work. Gamers want to hear the truth, not some sugar-coated PR spin.
In an interview with CVG, Rein said it wasn’t a smart move for Microsoft and Bungie to show a tiny bit of the Halo 3 single player campaign that this year’s E3.
“I think that [showing the single-player campaign] hurt Halo 3 at E3″, Rein told us when we caught up with him for a chat this week. “Halo 3 didn’t win any game of the show awards that I could see. Well, because they didn’t have to show Halo. There was no need”.
“I’m sure if they’d actually had a big Halo 3 presence, if Microsoft had set up eight machines or 12 or 16 machines so you could sit and play it, it would have won all kinds of awards. But they don’t need to because, like me, everyone’s already placed their order… So I think that worked against them at E3,” the Epic boss added.
I somewhat agree with him. I honestly expected more from Halo 3 and was disappointed that all we got was a simple little trailer, given the amount of time between E3 and the release. A single player demo or even a more refined multiplayer demo at E3 would have been better. But hey, everyone is going to buy it anyway. Microsoft knows they’re going to sell millions of copies of this game, so why push it and show anything more than is absolutely needed?
